Miracles & Truths

Miracle - God Himself descends from On High, trailing Clouds of Glory, to show me where my lost keys are.



Lesser Miracle - Aaron remembers seeing them and Scott drives to their last known location and is able to locate them in a darkened theater.



Dubious Miracle - I manage not to lose them in the first place.

---

Miracle - A man on heroin has a vision, wherein an angel instructs him not to get into a particular vehicle. Moments later, the vehicle - whose driver is also high - loses a brief but nasty battle with a tractor trailer. The man's life is spared and he quits cold turkey.



Lesser Miracle - A woman losing a twenty year battle with alcoholism is convinced by a church-going neighbor to enter yet another program. This one works.



Dubious Miracle - A fatherless youth raised in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is able to complete high school and college without ever wrestling with an addiction.

---

From a certain perspective every good thing is a miracle, divinely wrought in our lives through means both holy and mundane

---

Divine Revelation - God Himself descends from On High, trailing Clouds of Glory, to tell me which of several jobs I should take.



Lesser Revelation - An offhand comment by a friend inspires me to scan one more time over the want-ads, where I notice for the first time the Perfect Job. I fly through the interview and begin my lifelong career as an obscenely over-paid brownie taster.



Dubios Revelation - My friend and I pour over the paper together, and she points out a job to me that I had missed.

---

From a certain perspective, are all truths "revealed truths," shown to us at the proper time through means both holy and mundane?

amazed

the more i know about God, the more i become aware of the inadequacy of my ability to convey His truth in any meaningful way. and the more i am confident in His ability to use me anyway.

buy the lie

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy . . .
- John 10:10



and he does. he steals us away from our Father, he kills what joy remains in us, and he destroys our souls a day at a time.



then he holds up our pain and our grief, offering them as evidence that there is either no God at all or else no righteous and loving God.



and we buy it. scary.